General Right to Vote
Constitution:
(22 May 1980)
• Article 62 states, "Citizen shall have the right to vote, nominate and express their opinions in referenda according to the provisions of the law. Their participation in public life is a national duty."
Electoral Law:
(July 2000: Law 73 of 1956 on Exercising of Political Rights)
• Article 1 states, "Any Egyptian, male or female, on attaining the age of eighteen solar years, may exercise, independently, the following political rights: First: Making opinion on the following: 1- The referendum for selecting the President of the Republic; 2- All other referendums stated by the constitution. Second: Electing the members of the following: 1. The People's Assembly; 2. The Shura (Consultative) Council; 3. Local Popular Councils"

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Electoral Law:
(July 2000: Law 73 of 1956 on Exercising of Political Rights)
• Article 3 states, "Exercising political rights shall be suspended for the following persons… (2) Those with mental diseases who are detained, throughout the period of their detention"

Voter Assistance by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(July 2000: Law 73 of 1956 on Exercising of Political Rights)
• Article 29, paragraph 5 states, "…seeing-impaired persons, and other people with disabilities that may prevent them from casting their votes by themselves, may express their opinions verbally to be heard only by the members of the committee in charge of the polling station. The secretary shall then record the voter's opinion in his/her balloting card, which will be signed by the head of the station. It will then be clarified in front of the voter's name in the electoral list that he/she cast his/her vote in such a way."
• Article 29, paragraph 6 continues, "These disabled persons can also ask the persons accompanying them to write down their opinion on the balloting cards they receive from the head of the station, in front of the station's committee. This authorization shall be noted in the committee's minute."